title: Microstructural Parcellation of the Human Cerebral Cortex - From Brodmann's Post-Mortem Map to in vivo Mapping with High-Field Magnetic Resonance Imaging.
abstract: The year 2009 marked the 100th anniversary of the publication of the famous brain map of Korbinian Brodmann. Although a "classic" guide to microanatomical parcellation of the cerebral cortex, it is - from today's state-of-the-art neuroimaging perspective - problematic to use Brodmann's map as a structural guide to functional units in the cortex. In this article we discuss some of the reasons, especially the problematic compatibility of the "post-mortem world" of microstructural brain maps with the "in vivo world" of neuroimaging. We conclude with some prospects for the future of in vivo structural brain mapping: a new approach which has the enormous potential to make direct correlations between microstructure and function in living human brains: "in vivo Brodmann mapping" with high-field magnetic resonance imaging.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurophysics, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences Leipzig, Germany.
authors.forename: Stefan
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Geyer
authors.forename: Marcel
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Weiss
authors.forename: Katja
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Reimann
authors.forename: Gabriele
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Lohmann
authors.forename: Robert
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Turner